Power Outages in Cole County, MO
No live outage feed is available for Cole County, MO yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 1.2 hours.
Cole County, MO is served by local tracked utilities.
Cole County's utilities do not report live data to ODIN, so real-time outage counts aren't available here. The historical record below is complete.
- Heat AdvisoryMODERATE
Cole County has been under 3 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Heat Advisory on July 18, 2026.
- Heat Advisory ×2
- Flood Watch ×1
Hardest-hit cities in Cole County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
- Jefferson Cityno active outage
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Cole County went about 1.2 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 13,018 customers.
Worst year here was 2019 (peak 13,018 customers out) · decade average 1.4 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 489 | 3,079 | 0.5 |
| 2016 | 570 | 1,348 | 1.0 |
| 2017 | 451 | 1,652 | 0.4 |
| 2018 | 722 | 2,187 | 0.9 |
| 2019 | 673 | 13,018 | 5.2 |
| 2020 | 661 | 2,715 | 1.0 |
| 2021 | 653 | 5,463 | 1.2 |
| 2022 | 764 | 2,898 | 1.3 |
| 2023 | 837 | 1,924 | 1.8 |
| 2024 | 690 | 1,957 | 1.3 |
| 2025 | 746 | 2,965 | 1.2 |
Relatively High ice storms exposure · 1.4 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.
Power outages in Cole County: FAQ
- How often does Cole County, MO lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Cole County, MO logged 746 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 1.2 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Cole County, MO?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 13,018 customers without power, beginning May 23, 2019 and lasting about 3d 17h.
- Is there a power outage in Cole County, MO right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Cole County, MO. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Jefferson City. Outage counts for these communities are reported at the Cole County level shown above.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Cole County.
65023, 65040, 65053, 65076, 65101, 65109
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/29051 and /api/v1/counties/29051/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Missouri customers).